PayPal

Never used PayPal at all - have no opinion 

I know what you mean John.  They are all from Babylon those companys

js wrote: Ebay moving away from money orders is one of the many reasons I quit using ebay. Ebay was fun at first, but the end result has been that garage sales and thrift stores have lost a lot of their naive charm and good finds as well.

My wife now uses the local ones we have here these days (avid junk collector ). All the kids are telling me lately You Tube is not the same anymore as heaps of stuff has been removed. I only really ever look at it for the site. 

Yeah, I've noticed the kids complaining about changes to youtube, as a source for learning songs, it still works great for me.

Edited by js - 22 Jan 2012 at 3:43pm

Facebook is creepy, it connects you to too many people too quickly, no thanks, I don't care what the losers at my old high school are up to. 

[QUOTE=js]Facebook is creepy, it connects you to too many people too quickly, no thanks, I don't care what the losers at my old high school are up to.  I go on about once a week with my belated birthday greetings. They send a notification about 5 days before and I always forget nieces, nephews, and the odd family member not only friends get the treatment from me.  "How could you forget"  those words ring in my ears from the past  I forgot our wedding anniversary again this year.

Abraxas wrote: js wrote: Re Matt: Yeah, I've noticed the kids complaining about changes to youtube, as a source for learning songs, it still works great for me. Whats sad is the decline of myspace as a tool for musicians and bands. Its like the owner has given up and nobody is in charge of the place anymore, it used to be the best resource for finding new bands. The first wrong step was when they got rid of all the band searches by genre etc. Now there's SoundCloud and BandCamp, although the latter also offers paying, which can be seen as a pseudo-itunes or something in that vein, just better looking.

I will check them out Pablo. I think I have heard my son mention SoundCloud. I rarely watch clips even with all the music channels on TV as well these days. Still see a few though with others watching in the house but that is usually walking by and if I see something that grabs me I will watch it. One problem though if I like it they will change the channel  Music Documentarys though I love or any doco normally

js wrote: Facebook is creepy, it connects you to too many people too quickly, no thanks, I don't care what the losers at my old high school are up to.

Seconded. I have an alias on there for keeping in contact with a couple overseas friends - but then, e-mail does the same thing so I don't know why I bother.

js wrote: Facebook is creepy, it connects you to too many people too quickly, no thanks, I don't care what the losers at my old high school are up to.

Matt wrote: What do you all think is a great thing, as is, or if like me you think that they really should have competition. PayPal seem to forget that you are the customer using their process for payment which if one notices they keep changing their rules to suit themselves. Eg, Do you know they only give 45 days for a complaint to be lodged ( Ebay same)   Monopolies

That 45 day thing can be a real problem too, I once had an order on eBay, 300 worth of merchandise that never arrived, It was insured, anyone who knows anything about USPS insurance claims, they won't even let you file a claim for 30 days in most cases, then if your lucky, you get a first response 2 weeks after that, the guy I purchased from kept begging me to give him time on the USPS claim, but on the 44th day I had to file the claim on PayPal, USPS rejected his claim he said, I got my money back through PayPal, But I was thinking this guy may have been gaming the system some way, holding me off untill that 45 days, I don't know if he really did for sure. but never allow that 45 days to expire no matter what.


Edited by darkprinceofjazz - 14 Feb 2012 at 8:41am